Touch your walls, doors, sinks, light switches, and door handles; they were likely installed by illegal immigrants. Likely from a Latin American country if you’re in the USA (and if your home or apartment was built in the last few decades). While some Americans are concerned about ‘illegal’ labor conditions…

Prison Bars of the Mind This prison is in your mind. The feeling of FOMO that chains you to a hypothetical ideal future situation. The “what if.” FOMO is something you haven’t acquired yet, yet you’re already afraid of losing it. The roots of tradition and culture equally hold you down like wet mud. Expectation…

No more regrets, no more woulds, coulds and shoulds, we tell ourselves. Is that possible? Probable? Maybe, for short periods, but the answer isn’t to eliminate and complete our aspirational to-do list, but to accept and come to terms with it never being done. …

I turn 35 on Wednesday, March 22nd (2023). As I try to reflect back on “lessons” learned for my birthday, I’ve had a lot of trouble thinking of a lesson. I think the main lesson is that old age seems as far away to me now as young age. If…

Atheism is a bigger existential threat to religion than competing religions. It’s like Coke being Islam and Christianity being Pepsi, with the two arguing what flavor is better. But atheism is like not drinking soda at all because it’s unhealthy and causes obesity and diabetes. And we mostly keep the idea to ourselves but sometimes we’re like “yea stop feeding the kids and people so much soda or religion, it’s unhealthy” and they get angry and offended, but we’re just stating facts.

*A letter from me to Craigslist support on 11/8/22 — https://sfbay.craigslist.org/contact* Hello, I’ve been a fan of your website for decades now. I’m reaching out because I know that Craigslist is a small team and will listen, and believe that Craig himself is fond of animal welfare. I know there…

Craigslist has Terms against the sale of animals but doesn’t stop ads for pets. Any local city can have hundreds of ads, allowing puppy mills to keep proliferating. Why isn’t anyone regulating this or complaining, to Craiglist or the authorities?

Brainstorm many people live on the brink of homelessness. unemployed or drug-addicted at home Train hotel staff to deal with homeless ‘Legitimize’ the homeless. Make them more legible. They need an address to receive mail and to register an ID. They need IDs and transport to DMVs to get them. They need credit cards to rent hotels, and to match IDs to. Pull them out of the cash-only economy.

We Need a National Medium Conference! I think hosting a conference for readers and writers would be a wonderful idea, and I’d be glad to be hired to help set it up. I think it’d drive consumer engagement and interest, in a time when competition with other platforms such as Substack is strong, and interest may be waning. Medium tends to have a strong base , and I’ve personally been a member for years, having read thousands of articles.